Corby, Rugby & Market Harborough shops were owned by a Pete Brennan.
Comments
Name: Jez Randell
Comment: Many, many records bought from Fat Bob, although I think I’d left town by the time it’d moved. Remember buying Bow Wow Wow’s C·30 C·60 C·90 Go with free t-shirt!
That was before the boycott when he didn’t want to release an EP with us!
Name: Lindsay Wight
Comment: Used to buy George Thorogood albums there.
Name: Ian Kelland
Comment: Yeah! Great little record shop tucked away by the multi-storey car park. I bought loads of LPs there including The Doors Absolutely Live which some cockney racist thug stole off me when I was in London at drama school.
Name: Marie Shaw
Comment: I was their first Saturday girl in the Corby store in 1979, ten years plus... It was a great job... the music industry might have changed but I still love music and gigs.
PS: the first carrier bags were orange and black with the Discovery ship.
Name: Steve.
Comment: Originally the Market Harborough shop was on Coventry Road back in the 1970s. Corby opened next and Rugby opened on 1 November 1983. Coincidently the space shuttle bag cover was designed by me. But it was delayed issuing for a year due to the space shuttle tragedy. The original Discovery sailing ship design was hurriedly reprinted in the meantime. I worked in all of those three shops at various times.
(27 October 2015)
“DISCOVERY RECORDS, BELL COURT SHOPPING CENTRE, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON. Also at Solihull and Leamington Spa.”
“DISCOVERY RECORDS require YOUNG PERSON as FULL-TIME SALES ASSISTANT in the Market Harborough branch. Must be interested in music. Apply in writing giving brief details of experience etc, to: DISCOVERY, 3 MARKET SQUARE, CORBY.”
… and this advert in the 19th April 1990 edition:
“DISCOVERY RECORDS 14 ADAM & EVE STREET, MARKET HARBOROUGH, Telephone: 64700. FOR ALL YOUR RECORDS - TAPES - CD'S - VIDEOS.”